Lots and Lots of Sugar Book

Join Maria in her bittersweet telling of a South African woman's coming of age: Of dawn patrols as a child with her Oupa (grandpa) for rogue lion in the bush veldt; of mischievous boarding school life with its insatiable prankishness; of a hitchhiking tour in cold war Europe, sweet romance, political intrigue and tragedy. Then, back again in Africa, caught in the horror of the Congolese uprising and its turmoil-come.experience it all through the eyes of a bright and beautiful Maria.
Fleeing her losses, determined to forget, Maria emigrates to the States.
But here she faces further bereavement and, because of it, becomes deathly ill and falls into a melancholia so deep , she lives with the only comfort she now finds-the ghost of her past love. A compassionate physician whose healing is not limited his work with a scalpel, through a long and painful process of therapy, brings her back into a new bright world where she learns to accept her losses. But for Maria there is more sadness and disillusionment.for the physician-more healing.